The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-02-09
For Farmers.

Hon. ]. F. Sayre, of Rock, Wis.,, de-
clared that on his farm the idea had
been entertained that there was no
me in butter, and they were thank
full when they had enough to eat. But
last spring he told a daughter that if she
would 60 to making butter according to
the formula given by the institute work.
ers, all the money she could get for it
that the family did not need should be
her own. The little dairymaid went at
it and soon had customers near home at
big prices, but growing a little ambitious
and gaining more confidence, she sent
some to eastern friends, and forthwith
came the order for more, and her butter
market jumped from eighteen to twenty
five, thirty.five, and lateron to foIty-tive
cents per pound, and they now had an
ambition to give wheat the grand
bounce" and become dairymen.
The Dakota man who sowed buck
wheat among his young forest trees was
sensible. During the past fifteen years
the writer has lost no opportunity Tor
urging the sowing of buckwheat in nur'
series, tree plantations and yoang orch.
ards. When trees are set on the dark
colored prairie soils of the west, and the
ground we'll cultivated and bare, the sur
face temperature above the nitrogen
feeding roots will often reach 1902 n
some time 14Oo. This intense heat OF
the soil, and the consequent heating OF
the lower beds of air to which the young
trees are exposed, is contrary to nature
and her methods of tree growing. lfthe
exposed surface are covered with succu-
lent plants of buckwheat, the nitrogen
| feeding roots can come up about as near
to the surface as under native forest
| conditions, and the lower beds of air to
| which the plants are. exposed become
| relatively cool. During the past quarter
of a century some experiments with a
! view of testing the relative effect on
young trees of exposed and shaded sur
faces of soil between to lows, have given
results too striking for popular belief
| Professor Budd in Prairie Farmer.
Horses, when hungry, eat too fast, es-
pecially when given food which they
like. This gormandizing habit in eating
whole grain is one reason why it does
not digest better. 1t is n of giving
cut feed-hay or straw moistened and
meal put upon it-that horses try to
pick out the meal and thus eat more
slowly. With whole grain this object
can be accomplished by putting a few
pubbles in the bottom of the feeding box.
There is no danger that the most raven
GUS horse will swallow any of these; but
in picking over the grain to avoid them
he will necessarily take more time, mix
more saliva with his food and digest it
better, 1--WE tried this pebble remedy
with a horse that bolted his oats without
chewing, but it did no good. He could
not get the grain SO rapidly into his
mouth, but he swallowed half oft whole
all the same. We then chopped some
hay and stirred it with the oats, moisten-
ing it sometimes 80 that the grain and
hay would adhere. The horse chewed
the hay and of course, the oats.-Editor.
Those who are considering the question
of planting timber trees for profit should
remember that the hickorynut planted
, this autumn will have attained fair mar
ket size and value when the populrtior
) of the United States is $50, o
course, we do not mean by this that
! man who starts a timber plantation thi
! year must wait fifty or sixty years befor'
he receives any return from it. but w
do wish to call attention to the fact tina
J a plantation begun now will be at it
best productive condition when the de
mand for timber will be at least fv
I times as great as it . is and when tn
supply, judging from the past, will b
a%larmingly diminished. In estimatin
the probable value of well.kept wood
land in the future therefore, we Shout,
make some allowance for the change
conditions. VIZ may be helped in thi
matter by looking backward and con
pairing the price of good pine lands no.
# with the price but a few years ago, befol
a the census bulletins called attention I
h the rapid CONSUMPTION of this WOO
The average price more than doubled i
an incredibly short time. Twenty veal
ago, too, no one would look at pine tin
q Der that was not perfectly clear. To-da
logs small, crooked, knotty, that woul
A have been left to rot or burn tn tn
woods are carefully worked, and consun
, ers are glad to procure even such tinbe
at a.sprice they would never have though
n of paying for the best in the forme
times.
Il Hothouse or hotbed plants are usual
unsatisfactory to set in the open groun
in spring, and where only a family suppl
is wanted enough plants may be grow
in a single window, and it will be
positive pleasure to care for them. I'll
plants for sale have usually been force
at a high temperature. and crowde
until spindled, and when put out in IL
d garden many of them succumb to tt
first cold night, or they stand dwindlir
" for weeks before starting. To make
window garden, get a light box eigl
9. inches deep, twenty inches wide, and
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